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# Retiring this laser-beam of a rope today
- URL: https://blog.novaugust.net/instagram-2018-06-29/
- Published: 2018-06-29T14:22:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-21T20:36:20.000Z
- Author: Matt Enlow
- Tags: snapshot, @kineticsclimbing, @megsmegge, @micfleure, @albifu, @eliasfu_, @madsflur, @edelweissropes_usa, @climbonsquamish, #Import 2026-06-21 14:43

Retiring this laser-beam of a rope today.

I bought it in Singapore over Christmas from [@kineticsclimbing](https://blog.novaugust.net/tag/kineticsclimbing/). They thought I popped in out of the blue because I had heard about their sale - I hadn't, but I was sure grateful it was happening. They were the only shop that had long \*skinny\* ropes. Rather, I was there because of the core shot I'd put in our last 70 in Li Ming while giving a redpoint burn on Ding Dong's Crack. There's a photo of that somewhere back in my stream... The first trip the rope went on with me was to outer space - I remember stuffing it in my tiny about-town pack and rushing to the movie theater to watch the newly-released Star Wars movie with [@megsmegge](https://blog.novaugust.net/tag/megsmegge/), [@micfleure](https://blog.novaugust.net/tag/micfleure/), [@albifu](https://blog.novaugust.net/tag/albifu/), [@eliasfu\_](https://blog.novaugust.net/tag/eliasfu%5F/) and [@madsflur](https://blog.novaugust.net/tag/madsflur/).

Since then, I've used the rope seemingly every week. It's a radical [@edelweissropes\_usa](https://blog.novaugust.net/tag/edelweissropes%5Fusa/) line, and no one ever disagreed when I suggested we use my line over theirs. It's seen a lot of love in the last six months. Its final route, yesterday, took it twelve pitches up the Chief via Sunset Strip (sunsetting the rope on Sunset, I like that) - with a week old core shot in it. I was pretty sure we weren't going to fall, so that's okay (?). Still, this isn't just the death of seventy meter. It's also the birth of a new Wild Iris / Smoke Bluffs rope, once I lop off twenty meters with [@climbonsquamish](https://blog.novaugust.net/tag/climbonsquamish/)'s hot knife...

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